Last week Google began making efforts to win over Chinese officials. Rather than automatically redirect Google.cn visitors to Google’s Hong Kong search engine, the company now sends visitors to a “landing page” where they can choose to click on a link leading to the Hong Kong site.

The delay in renewing Google’s license—it was due at the start of the month—was because the company’s submission “came late,” a spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said earlier this week.

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said he was confident that Google would get its license renewed, according to media reports of remarks he made Thursday at an event in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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